Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on December 20, 2014

 Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 07, 2013 Region: Region Free Length: 109 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.36:1 Notes: This title has had a number of DVD releases and is also available on Bl   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on November 10, 2014

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Release Date: September 11, 2014 “Rarely when authors talk about Hitchcock’s filmmaking team do they address the contributions of his actors. There is little or no serious attention paid to them or any in-depth study of their contributions to his films… While acto   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on November 4, 2014

Publisher: Kamera Books Release Date: September 1, 2013 Those who have read Tony Lee Moral’s “Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie” will not be surprised to hear that his book about the making of The Birds stands as one of the better books about the creation of a single Hitchcock...   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on November 4, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 06, 2014 Region: Region A Length: 1:59:29 Video: 1080P AVC (MPEG-4) Main Audio: DTS-HD English Mono Master Audio (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitrate: 29.37 Mbps Notes: This title has had a number of DVD relea   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on October 12, 2014

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Psycho (1960) was one of the first reviews posted on this site. The exact same disc has recently been re-released with the same transfer, supplements, and artwork (minus the 50th Anniversary label). The only difference between the two releases is that the more recent   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on October 8, 2014

Publisher: University of Texas Press Release Date: September 1, 2014 Cinemaphiles have grown to expect certain things from “making of” texts. They expect the book to be a comprehensive account of a film’s production. They also expect a few photos to be found hidden throughout the text of the book....   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on October 8, 2014

Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 30, 2014 Region: Region A Length: 3:53:14 Video: 1080P (VC-1 Video) Main Audio: English Dolby TrueHD Audio (48 kHz, 16-bit) English Dolby Digital Mono Alternate Audio: French 5.1 Dolby Digital Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Spanish Dolby Digital Mono Germ   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on September 15, 2014

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers Release Date: April 30, 2014 “Settings, of course, come into the preliminary plan, and usually I have a fairly clear idea about them; I was an art student before I took up with films. Sometimes I even think of backgrounds first.” -Alfred Hitchcock Having wor   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on September 6, 2014

Publisher: Titan Books Release Date: August 19, 2008 Ken Mogg’s coffee table book is better than similar books about the director. The title might lead one to believe that the book is another biography, but it is really a tribute to the director’s film output. There are similar books about...   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on August 17, 2014

Publisher: Focal Press Release Date: June 8, 2012 The FilmCraft book series focuses on specific disciplines within the filmmaking profession using interviews from noteworthy professionals in the field. This volume by Mike Goodridge features interviews with 16 directors, and profiles of 5 other dire   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on August 2, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 06, 2014 Region: Region Free Length: 2:08:27 Video: 1080P (VC-1) Main Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) DTS English Mono Alternate Audio: DTS French Mono DTS Spanish Mono Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitr   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on July 24, 2014

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Release Date: November 9, 2011 Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design is the first book dedicated to one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century. Saul Bass created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extend   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on July 18, 2014

Publisher: The University of Mississippi Press Release Date: April 15, 2003 “He is one of the most over-interviewed people imaginable…” –Janet Maslin (Boston After Dark, 1972) Janet Maslin’s statement has the ring of truth. Hitchcock had even developed a repertoire of standard answers to feed journ   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on July 16, 2014

Publisher: Wayne State University Press (2nd Edition) Release Date: October 11, 2010 In 1977 (when this book was first published), critics tended to overlook (and even discount) the films from Alfred Hitchcock’s British period. This tendency seems especially short sighted. The formative years of any   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on July 9, 2014

Publisher: University of Illinois Press Release Date: October 1, 2011 Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Critical/Biographical, 2012. Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick’s Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on July 5, 2014

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Release Date: March 22, 2012 Expectation has a way of painting shadows upon a text that can easily doom the reader’s enjoyment. Certain readers might be disappointed with “Hitchcock’s Ear” if they are expecting an in-depth ‘behind the scenes’ study of Alfred Hitchcock   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on June 30, 2014

Publisher: State University of New York Press Release Date: September 1, 2011 “Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter” is a collection of scholarly essays about Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptations (compiled and edited by R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd). While one might be tempted to compare   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on June 25, 2014

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Release Date: March 14, 2014 “Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen” is a collection of scholarly essays about Hitchcock’s film adaptations (compiled and edited by Mark Osteen). In many ways, the book can be seen as a sequel to a previous collection of   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on June 15, 2014

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Release Date: Mar 24, 2014 It would be rather short sighted to assume that Alfred Hitchcock’s creative evolution wasn’t altered by the various individuals that collaborated with him. Out of all the screenwriters that Hitchcock worked with, Charles Bennett   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on June 6, 2014

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Release Date: May 1, 2013 There have been countless books devoted to Alfred Hitchcock. Most are film theory, many are biographies, and others are detailed accounts of the making of a specific Hitchcock film. Nearly every theoretic angle has been covered in metic   read more